Contents

Prologue: years of making magic

DAVID SHERMAN

Insult was our lot in life

RICHARD LITTLEMORE

Fake news is old hat

NICHOLAS STEED

Hot type to no type; when the story was all

JIM DUFF

Trenchant tales of sexism, survival et moi

SUSAN KASTNER

Bittersweet call of the anarchists’ den

LIAM LACEY

I read it in the paper

MARK ABLEY

Memories, broken hearts and the cop that wasn’t

TIM HARPER

The Sun: collusion, conspiracy and cold beer

RICHARD LITTLEMORE

Blood and babes were bread and butter

JIM WITHERS

Once upon a time it sang

DAVID SHERMAN

The man who wasn’t there

EARL FOWLER

Ups and downs of rock ’n’ roll

PETER HOWELL

Awash in Spicer’s spirited dinners

CHARLES GORDON

Discovering Montreal’s lush life

PETER COONEY

Apprentice tarred and taught

MICHAEL COOKE

Scents of film reviewing: sex and money

JAY STONE

Dining out on celebrity tidbits

TOMMY SCHNURMACHER

Funny headline goes here

JIM WITHERS

Blooper Central: Copyeditors asleep at the switch

The junket junkie and the agents of suppression

JIM SLOTEK

The gentlemen of the Fourth Estate

MARIANNE ACKERMAN

Squashed Dog

BILL TURPIN

I as in the first and most important

SARAH MURDOCH

Supermarket tabs: what do facts have to do with it?

LIZ POGUE

Nothing too small to print

JOHN POHL

Cool, sweet taste of printer’s ink

DANE LANKEN

Lather, rinse, repeat: a print junkie imposter

LIZ BRAUN

Spelling important; truth not so much

BRIAN DOYLE

Gripped by the balls

BRIAN KAPPLER

Acknowledgements

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